The rice diet as written doesn't sound too appealing. A little help from the fine people who brought us Snackwells could probably fix that.

I think the SAD would be a disaster sooner rather than later. It would be nice if something would reverse things to the point where if a person took several decades to develop type II, it would take a similar amount of time for them to develop the disease again, if they went back to the SAD.

I did Eat to Win, an Ornish-like program when I was a teenager. I felt good on it, lost fat. Did awful things to my teeth though, I think probably down to a diet high in phytic acid and low in fat soluble vitamins during a critical growth period.